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Course Department: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Course Code: CEE 483
Course Title: Flow Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering
Number of ECTS: 5
Level of Course: 1st Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) 
Year of Study (if applicable):
Semester/Trimester when the Course Unit is Delivered: Spring Semester 
Name of Lecturer(s): Marina Neophytou 
Lectures/Week: 2 (1.5 hours per lecture) 
Laboratories/week: -- 
Tutorials/Week: -- 
Course Purpose and Objectives: The aim of the course is to promote understanding the natural laws and mechanisms that govern the transport phenomena in gases, liquids and porous media, with emphasis on the transport of pollutants.  
Learning Outcomes:
1. Familiarization of students with examples and applications of flow transport phenomena.
2. Understanding of fundamentals and applications of the governing differential equations (mass, momentum, and transport of pollutants) in Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
3. Investigation of Flow Transport Phenomena in Laboratory Experiments (air, water, soil).
 
Prerequisites: CEE270 
Co-requisites: Not Applicable 
Course Content:
1. Introduction to Flow Transport Phenomena in the Environment and Climate.
2. Sources of Pollution and Basic mass transport mechanisms (including turbulent dispersion).
3. Differential Analysis and use of Navier-Stokes equations in Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
4. Experiments in Flow Transport Phenomena (air, water, soil).
 
Teaching Methodology: Interactive lecturing and experiments. 
Bibliography:
1. Lecture Handouts (delivered at each lecture by the instructor).
2. BIRD, R.B., STEWART, W.E. AND LIGHTFOOT, E.N. (2007). TRANSPORT PHENOMENA (REVISED SECOND EDITION ED.). JOHN WILEY & SONS. ISBN 978-0-470-11539-8.
3. RAUDKIVI, A.J. LOOSE BOUNDARY HYDRAULICS Balkema 4th edition 1998.
 
Assessment: Final exam, technical reports on experiments and 3 regular series of exercises as homework. 
Language of Instruction: Greek
Delivery Mode: Face-To-Face 
Work Placement(s): Not Applicable